FS 444H - Film Censorship

Prerequisites, FTV 140 and FS 244 or FS 245. Film studies and film and media studies majors and film studies and film and media studies minors will have enrollment priority. This course investigates the cultural, industrial, and social factors that provided the genesis of Hollywood self-industry censorship during what has been coined its “Pre-Code” era. We begin in the 1920s by studying the formation of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors Association (MPPDA), to the Studio Relations Committee’s monitoring of early sound films in the early 1930s, until the strict enforcement of the film industry’s “Production Code” in 1934, and then analyze its effects/aftermath. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits